Originally Posted By: Pablo
That'll work. You could have a sidekick named Spiderman. Or not.
So who is footing the bill so far?
The last I heard, my insurance was discussing with them how they wanted to handle it. I'm not sure if they're self-insured or have an outside carrier. It turns out that the company involved is one of the largest commercial and industrial roofing companies in the world.
I've been down and talked with the regional manager, as well as another senior guy, and they've admitted responsibility for the whole thing. No denials or anything. The regional manager called the guy responsible and asked if he'd had anything in the truck that could have spilled. The guy had said he didn't think so, so the RM asked him to go out and have a look. The guy called back and said that he'd had a bucket of something turn over in the back.
The funny thing is that the guy claimed it was well under a gallon. The body shop figures if that is all it was, every last drop must have landed on my car. I think there was more than the guy thought, or cares to admit to. The MSDS, that the RM gave me for the product the guy says was spilled, gives a physical description of "olive green to dark grey" in appearance. Everyone who saw the stuff before the worst of it was power-washed off concurs with me that it was more of a yellow color. It sure looks yellow in the pictures...
I can't help but think the guy had more stuff in the truck than he wants to admit to, or the stuff that spilled managed to dissolve another material that was stuck in the truck bed. The MSDS they gave me is for an EPDM membrane primer. Its ingredient list shows contents (by weight) of 60-100% Toluene, 3-7% Heptane and 1-5% Hydrocarbon Tackifying Resin. Any chemical engineers care to fill us all in about what this stuff can do to the surfaces of an automobile?
At this point it has all become a morbid interest in just what has actually happened and wondering what the potentialities are. Lucky me...
That'll work. You could have a sidekick named Spiderman. Or not.
So who is footing the bill so far?
The last I heard, my insurance was discussing with them how they wanted to handle it. I'm not sure if they're self-insured or have an outside carrier. It turns out that the company involved is one of the largest commercial and industrial roofing companies in the world.
I've been down and talked with the regional manager, as well as another senior guy, and they've admitted responsibility for the whole thing. No denials or anything. The regional manager called the guy responsible and asked if he'd had anything in the truck that could have spilled. The guy had said he didn't think so, so the RM asked him to go out and have a look. The guy called back and said that he'd had a bucket of something turn over in the back.
The funny thing is that the guy claimed it was well under a gallon. The body shop figures if that is all it was, every last drop must have landed on my car. I think there was more than the guy thought, or cares to admit to. The MSDS, that the RM gave me for the product the guy says was spilled, gives a physical description of "olive green to dark grey" in appearance. Everyone who saw the stuff before the worst of it was power-washed off concurs with me that it was more of a yellow color. It sure looks yellow in the pictures...
I can't help but think the guy had more stuff in the truck than he wants to admit to, or the stuff that spilled managed to dissolve another material that was stuck in the truck bed. The MSDS they gave me is for an EPDM membrane primer. Its ingredient list shows contents (by weight) of 60-100% Toluene, 3-7% Heptane and 1-5% Hydrocarbon Tackifying Resin. Any chemical engineers care to fill us all in about what this stuff can do to the surfaces of an automobile?
At this point it has all become a morbid interest in just what has actually happened and wondering what the potentialities are. Lucky me...
